TINDOUF, Algeria – With a master’s degree in energy efficiency, Sahrawi refugee Tateh Lehbib Breica had originally planned to build an energy efficient home in the desert, using discarded bottles for ...

Building a house is time-consuming, requires a large number of raw materials and labor and is not environmentally friendly. Now, imagine a world where houses are built quickly, yet affordable and even ...

TEPIC, Mexico (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Tens of thousands of empty plastic bottles could be filled with rubble and earth to build quake-resistant emergency shelters for people made homeless in ...